Special Issue on Molecular Imaging: Emerging Technology and Biomedical Applications

Presents an introduction to a special issue on molecular imaging: emerging technology and biomedical applications. The paper illustrates the recent advances in molecular imaging, including aspects of basic molecular/genetic research up to in vivo human imaging. Developments of unique imaging technology to unveil molecular events are at the core of this research activity. In turn, such new techniques produce biomedical findings that could not be found by conventional imaging technology. The papers in this issue provide perspectives of this research field and the emergence of molecular imaging and applications.